Social Science Theory

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    • My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines
    • Auteur(s): Joy Buolamwini
    • Narrateur(s): Joy Buolamwini
    • Durée: 9 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • To most of us, it seems like recent developments in artificial intelligence emerged out of nowhere to pose unprecedented threats to humankind. But to Dr. Joy Buolamwini, who has been at the forefront of AI research, this moment has been a long time in the making.

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    • What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else
    • Auteur(s): Geoff Colvin
    • Narrateur(s): Geoff Colvin
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 évaluations
    • Why are certain people so incredibly great at what they do? Most of us think we know the answer - but we’re almost always wrong. That’s important, because if we’re wrong on this crucial question, then we have zero chance of getting significantly better at anything we care about....

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    • Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
    • Auteur(s): Jonathan Sacks
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Sacks
    • Durée: 14 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values....

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    • A Warning to the Global Middle Class
    • Auteur(s): Joel Kotkin
    • Narrateur(s): Traber Burns
    • Durée: 6 h et 33 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 évaluations
    • Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism....

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    • The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
    • Auteur(s): Carol Anderson
    • Narrateur(s): Pamela Gibson
    • Durée: 6 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-07-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 évaluations
    • Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America....

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    • A History of Boll*cks Theories, and How Not to Fall for Them
    • Auteur(s): Tom Phillips, Jonn Elledge
    • Narrateur(s): Jonn Elledge, Tom Phillips
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-07-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be fair, we absolutely are)....

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    • Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
    • Auteur(s): Dean Spade
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen R. Thorne
    • Durée: 4 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • This book is about mutual aid: why it is so important, what it looks like, and how to do it. It provides a grassroots theory of mutual aid, describes how mutual aid is a crucial part of powerful movements for social justice, and offers concrete tools for organizing....

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    • The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics
    • Auteur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
    • Narrateur(s): Lawrence O'Donnell
    • Durée: 17 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-11-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • An important and enthralling new account of the presidential election that changed everything, the race that created American politics as we know it today....

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    • How to Be Human in the Age of AI
    • Auteur(s): Dr. Ayanna Howard
    • Narrateur(s): Amandla Stenberg
    • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-09-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 évaluations
    • In the movies, robots can be terrifying. In reality, thinking machines are disrupting the world in ways that are even more disturbing than in Hollywood fantasies - but they also have the potential to change our lives for the better....

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    • Auteur(s): Achille Mbembe, Steven Corcoran - translator
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In Necropolitics, Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality, militarization, enmity, and terror....

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    • A History, a Theory, a Flood
    • Auteur(s): James Gleick
    • Narrateur(s): Rob Shapiro
    • Durée: 16 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-03-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 évaluations
    • James Gleick, the author of the best sellers Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: A revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality....

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    • Auteur(s): Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward
    • Narrateur(s): Holter Graham
    • Durée: 19 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • The Final Days is the number-one New York Times best-selling, classic, behind-the-scenes account of Richard Nixon's dramatic last months as president....

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    • The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World
    • Auteur(s): Joe Keohane
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Durée: 12 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • A “meticulously researched and buoyantly written” (Esquire) look at what happens when we talk to strangers, and why it affects everything from our own health and well-being to the rise and fall of nations....

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    • A New History
    • Auteur(s): Sean McMeekin
    • Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
    • Durée: 15 h et 3 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-07-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • From an award-winning scholar comes this definitive, single-volume history that illuminates the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution....

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    • Auteur(s): René Girard
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Noble
    • Durée: 17 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Violence and the Sacred is Rene Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature, and myth.

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    • Why Markets Work so Well, and Why They Can Fail so Badly
    • Auteur(s): John Quiggin
    • Narrateur(s): Gildart Jackson
    • Durée: 10 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes - and failures - of free-market economics....

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    • The Rise of Latin America's 21st Century Strongman
    • Auteur(s): Will Grant
    • Narrateur(s): Ed Hughes
    • Durée: 19 h
    • Date de publication: 2021-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • For more than six decades, Fidel Castro's words have echoed through the politics of Latin America. His towering political influence still looms over the region today....

    Prix courant: 25,84$ ou 1 crédit

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